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People dance in the streets at night in Merida and spend their days in
the parks and plazas of this colonial city with its many monuments,
museums, old churches and municipal buildings. The Zocalo is the site
for the daily raising and lowering of the flag. It is where Comandante
Marcos - the champion of the people of the state of Chiapas - spoke
when he came to town. And its stage is used regularly by musicians,
street clowns, entertainers and dancing groups.

Canton Palace, which houses the archaeology museum, is located on
the main avenue of Merida, the Paseo de Montejo. It was designed by the
Italian architect Enrico Deserti, and built in the first decade of the
20th century to be the residence of the ex-governor of Yucatan, General
Francisco Canton. The Canton Palace unites its attractive architecture
with an extraordinary number of archaeological treasures, one of the
most important collections on the development of Pre-Colombian Mayan
culture in the Yucatan Peninsula.